Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering George Silk on his birthday 🎂
📷 Daryl John Gregory, 1981
"Capa & Bourke-White saw the big picture and made it 'their war.' George just doggedly wanted to be there and conquer his fears and show people what it was like."
- John Loengard

George Silk
Charlton Heston lifts his two-month-old son Fraser on the set of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. The young boy played the baby Moses.

Yogi Berra by George Silk, 1949
"Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once."

Marilyn Monroe & Edith Sitwell
A great photo by George Silk

Fred Allen by George Silk for Life magazine, 1950
Allen is one of my heroes. He seems terribly tired & sad here, resting backstage during a TV rehearsal. The great radio comedian didn't enjoy television much; he said he didn't like furniture that talked.

Don Hartman, Zizi Jeanmaire, Grace Kelly & Edith Head on their way to the Oscars. Kelly & Head both won.
📷 George Silk, 1955

Walt Disney wins four #Oscars in one night: for best feature-length documentary, short documentary, cartoon & two-reeler, at the #AcademyAwards ceremony in 1954. He won 22 out of 59 nominations in his career, both records.
📷 George Silk

Charles Addams by George Silk, 1948
Addams collected cars his whole life.
"He dated Jackie Kennedy, and he claimed he drove her down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue at 110 mph, but in his 1960 black Bentley, not the Bugatti."
- Peter Vack

George Santayana looking out over the Vatican
📷 George Silk, July 1944

George Silk did a series of Hallowe'en photos for Life magazine in 1960. He used a modified photo-finish camera he had developed for the Olympics that year.

George Silk used a modified strip camera for his shots of athletes running. This was from the trials for the US team at the 1960 Olympics.

George Silk
A pair of German soldiers raise their arms in surrender to the US Army 3rd Infantry & 1st Armored Divisions in Cisterna, Italy, 1944

A great George Silk shot from the luge competition at the 1964 Olympics.